Wednesday, October 30 and Saturday, November 2, 7:00 pm, Sanctuary

A Spire on Fire ignites bold conversations of spirituality, performance, social justice, and the “self” in a society determined to ‘other’. We ask artists to hold this complex mix in the creation of new performance work.  Where the body is the site for stored memory, experience and trauma, as well as a vehicle for creative expression and liberation; Church sanctuaries are sites with complex histories, containers for community gathering, hope and healing, as well as spaces of violence and institutional oppression.

Knox United Church and Springboard Performance have partnered to commission performing artists to express personal truths and transform these spaces through site-specific creation, not in spite of its physical and cultural burdens, but in collaboration with them. Artists animate the space with their stories; truth-telling, history and healing (or the possibility of it?) through creative self-expression and community reconciliation.  Artists:  Rob Hunter, Rufi Oswaldo, Jamie “Tea” Tognazzini. 

Tickets: https://springboardperformance.com/events/a-spire-on-fire-2024